Sentences with phrase «threaten ocean ecosystems»

Their decline could threaten ocean ecosystems and contribute to global warming.

This recovered role may be especially important as climate change threatens ocean ecosystems with rising temperatures and acidification.

Climate change threatens ocean ecosystems, food security and economic development alike, Indonesia's Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries said in his opening speech (Xinhuanet).

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Coral skeletons are the building blocks of diverse coral reef ecosystems, which has led to increasing concern over how these key species will cope with warming and acidifying oceans that threaten their stability.

Vital marine ecosystems are threatened by ocean warming and acidification, yet get a tiny fraction of climate finance, E3G research shows

Pollution from fossil fuels is altering ocean chemistry and threatening marine life and whole ecosystems.

Coral reefs are among the ecosystems most severely threatened by global warming, but hopeful new evidence has emerged that some coral species may be able to adapt to warmer oceans.

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

The SPM asserts on Page 17 that fish habitats and production will fall and that ocean acidification threatens marine ecosystems.

But while the industry and its regulators might be focused on good management, Greenpeace argued that krill fishing is placing unnecessary pressure on sensitive ecosystems in a part of the world's oceans already greatly threatened by melting sea ice and rising ocean temperatures.

Warmer ocean water damages coral reefs, threatens marine ecosystems, and disrupts global fisheries.

The consequences of this increase range from ocean acidification — excess CO2 lowers of the pH of the water, dissolving the shells of many animals and threatening the stability of entire marine ecosystems — to trapping heat in the atmosphere, leading to climate change.

Nuclear power plants are always near water and the neighboring river, lake or ocean sees its local temperatures rise because of the warm water returned from the power plant, threatening the local ecosystems.

Ocean warming and increasing acidity are threatening the ecosystems of coral reefs, pelagic micro-organisms, and food chains.

A more acidic ocean under climate change threatens to reconfigure entire ecosystems by advantaging some fish species to the detriment of others, a new study has found.

There are three groups of tipping elements: melting ice bodies, changing circulations of the ocean and atmosphere, and threatened large - scale ecosystems.

See if you think that marine ecosystems look threatened by that little red blip on the ocean's surface.

Such is the desperate status of the lionfish wars, an invasion of this predatory fish from the Pacific Ocean into the Bahamas and Caribbean region that threatens everything from coral reef ecosystems to the local economies, which are based on fishing and tourism.

ABSTRACT Climate change (CC) and its impacts are gaining momentum which threatens the integrity and security of Pacific Island nations» natural ecosystems, economies and way of life that is intricately woven into the ocean, forests and the land.